Fwd: Writing online: A new complication

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FYI 

Bloggers/web writers are being sued for quoting news  organizations.
See forwarded note below and the relevant blog post here:
_http://woodenhorsepub.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/think-before-you-quote-even-
in-comments/_ 
(http://woodenhorsepub.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/think-before-you-quote-even-in-comments/) 

Even though  the lawuits may be baseless, they could still cost you $s and 
time to  defend yourself as well as potentially shutting down your web site 
or blog  while the suit is being litigated.

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____________________________________
 From: mweaver@woodenhorsepub.com
To:  magazinenews-uns@woodenhorsepub.com
Sent: 9/23/2011 9:44:13 A.M. Eastern  Daylight Time
Subj: Writing online: A new complication

An alert  from Wooden Horse: 
Be careful  if you write online and quote other sources, even in comments.  
In a  recent blog post we highlighted a company called Righthaven LLC - a 
business  founded solely to monitor and sue small websites and  blogs. 
To find out  what Righthaven and other "copyright trolls" have been doing, 
read _the  Wooden Horse blog_ 
(http://woodenhorsepub.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/think-before-you-quote-even-in-comments)  and then please, please, warn 
others.  You have our  permission to post all or parts of our blog post where 
appropriate, as long as  you credit Wooden Horse Publishing at  
http://www.woodenhorsepub.com. 
Wishing  everybody safe and successful online publishing, 
Meg  Weaver 
Wooden  Horse Publishing 
mweaver@woodenhorsepub.com 
(503)  338-4300 
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